Kucinich is in Debate?

[penguin7]

Watching Tuesday's parallel campaign dramas
Democrats debate on MSNBC in Las Vegas, while GOP counts Michigan vote
By Tom Curry
National affairs writer
updated 3:07 p.m. CT, Tues., Jan. 15, 2008
WASHINGTON - Tuesday may be both one of the oddest and the most significant days in the 2008 presidential election calendar.

It will be a night at the political multiplex cinema, with junkies running back and forth between theaters to watch two competing thrillers – "Wait Until Dark" and "Vertigo".

In Las Vegas, Democratic presidential contenders Sen. Hillary Clinton, Sen. Barack Obama, John Edwards and Rep. Dennis Kucinich meet for a televised two-hour skirmish which will air on MSNBC TV and msnbc.com, starting at 9pm ET. Brian Williams will be the moderator and he will be joined by Tim Russert.

Meanwhile, 2,000 miles away in Michigan, voters in the Republican primary may either save Mitt Romney’s candidacy, or sink it.

Michigan polls close at 9pm Eastern. By 10, Romney will likely know whether he has a future as a presidential contender.

Michigan has the nation’s highest unemployment rate, 7.4 percent and Romney has campaigned there as a former business executive, who as president could revive the state’s economy.

Feeling their pain in Michigan
“A lot of Washington politicians are aware of the pain in Michigan, but they haven't done anything about it,” Romney told Michigan voters.

A Romney win would hand a humbling defeat to Arizona Sen. John McCain, who won the 2000 Michigan Republican primary with 51 percent to George W. Bush’s 43 percent.

Michigan voters do not register by party so Democrats and independents can join the fray on the Republican side.

A key unknown: how many Democrats will choose to vote in the GOP primary, either to express genuine support for McCain, or perhaps to make a little mischief by voting for Romney or Mike Huckabee?

Many Democrats in Michigan are fuming that their party’s leaders have, in effect, stripped them of their votes by ruling that the Democratic primary won’t really count.

The Michigan Democratic leadership scheduled the primary outside the timeline set by the Democratic National Committee, so delegates chosen Tuesday night may not be seated at the party’s convention.

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[robbedvoter]

1. Unless the appeal court renders a decision by then, he'd have to be in!

[rainy]

2. What time and what station is the debate taking place?

[caraher]

4. I believe 6 PM Pacific (9 Eastern) on MSNBC

I'm pretty sure it's MSNBC because Kucinich sued NBC, but the judge's ruling is controversial because courts have apparently held that cable news is not subject to any kind of obligation to provide fair access to the "airwaves" (unlike broadcast stations that actually transmit signals from big antennae).

Fortunately, Kucinich also had the stronger claim that the original invitation constituted a contract that NBC is obliged to uphold.

[penguin7]

3. link to MSNBC site

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22664178/

[goodhue]

5. The Nevada supreme court hearing was scheduled for 3:30 EST

Presumably there is a new order somewheres or soon will be.